List
of Publications
Authored
Book
1973.Faction
and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush.Anthro-pological
Paper Number 50.Museum of Anthropology.University
of Michigan.Ann
Arbor. (125 pp.)
Edited
Books
1961-63.English
for Afghans. Books 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.Royal Ministry
of Education.Kabul, Afghanistan.(For Afghan public schools.)
1984.(Coedited
with NazifShahrani).Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan,
1978-1981.Berkeley: Institute
of International
Studies.(394
pp.)
1989.(Coedited
withMilanHauner)Afghanistan
and the Soviet
Union:
Collision and Transformation. Boulder:
Westview. (218 pp.)
1991.
Turko-Persia
in Historical Perspective.Santa
Fe and London:School
of American
Research and CambridgeUniversity
Press. (256 pp.)
Short
Monographs (itacisized), Articles, and Chapters in Other Works
1960.An
Analysis of the Distribution Classes of Colloquial Kabul
Persian.Institute
of Education, Kabul, Afghanistan.(65
pp.)
1973.Ethnic
Groups.Americana Annual.New
York: Encyclopedia Americana.
1974.Ethnic
Groups.Americana Annual.New
York: Encyclopedia Americana.
1975.Ethnic
Groups.Americana Annual.New
York: Encyclopedia Americana.
1977.Where
Heads the Future?The Other Side.Issue 74 (November): 18-21.
1978.Religious
Myth as Ethnic Boundary.In:Ethnic Process and Intergroup Relations in
Afghanistan.Edited by Jon Anderson and Richard Strand.New York:Asia
Society.
1979.
On Maximization, Charisma and Pathan Personality. Current Anthropology
20: 420-422.
1980.Foreword.Our
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: History and Destiny of the Assyrian People.
By Peter Talia.Chicago:AssyrianChurch.
1980.Afghanistan:
Why We Should Care.WashingtonUniversity
Magazine
50(4) (October): 44-49.in (Reprinted in AFL-CIO American Federationist
[July, 1981] pp. 17-21.)
(Reprinted
under the title "Afghanistan:
Ripples Around the World" in The Asia Mail 5(12) (September): 12-13.
1981.
Soviet Gambit in Afghanistan.Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies 5(1) (October): 11-30.
1983.
Accusation as "Anthropology".Reviews in Anthropology 10(1):
55-61.
1983.
Comment on Arbar S. Ahmed: "Islam and The District Paradigm: Emergent Trends
in Contemporary Muslim Society".Current Anthropology 24(1): 82.
1983.
Islamic Authorities in Afghanistan:
Notes from a Resident Scholar. School
of American
Research: 1983 Report.
1984.
Hazara.In: Muslim Peoples (Revised edition of Ethnographic Survey
of the Muslim World).Edited by R. V. Weeks.Pp. 327-332.Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood.
1984.Islamic
Coalitions in Bamian and the Translation of Afghan Political Culture.In:Revolutions
and Rebellions in Afghanistan,
1978-1981.Edited
by NazifShahrani and Robert Canfield, pp. 211-219.Berkeley: Institute
of International
Studies.
1984.Introduction.The
Encyclopedia of Mankind.London: Marshall Cavendish.
1985.Islamic
Sources of the Resistance.Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs
29(1) (Spring):57-71.
1985.Western
Stakes in the Afghanistan War.Central Asian Survey 4 (1): 121?135.(Reprinted
in Pushtu as "Da Afghanistan
mujahedindaasiaaowgharblahgemuna ham dafaa' kuyi" in Khpalwaki [Independence]
[Quarterly Journal of the Writer's Union of Free Afghanistan], 1 (1): 63-80.
1985.)
1986.Ethnic,
Regional, and Sectarian Alignments in Rural Afghanistan.In:The State,
Religion, and Ethnic Politics: Afghanistan, Iran,
and Pakistan.
Edited by Ali Banuazizi and Myron Weiner (under the sponsorship of the
Social Science Research Council).Syracuse: SyracuseUniversity.
1988.Afghanistan's
Social Identities in Crisis.In: IdentitéetExpérienceEthniques
en Iran
et en Afghanistan.Edited
by Jean-Paul Digard. Paris:
Centre National de la RecherchesScientifique.
1989aThe
Collision of Evolutionary Process and Islamic Ideology in Greater Central
Asia.In: Afghanistan
and the Soviet
Union:
Collision and Transformation.Edited
by MilanHauner and Robert
L. Canfield.Boulder:Westview.
1989bConclusion.In: Afghanistan
and the Soviet
Union:
Collision
and Transformation. Edited by MilanHauner
and Robert L. Canfield.Boulder:Westview.
1989cAfghanistan:
The Trajectory of Internal Alignments. The Middle East Journal
43 (4, fall): 635?648.
1989d"Afghanistan".
[a contribution to] Tongue- in-Cheek: Predictions by a Few Brave
Souls. The Middle East Institute Newsletter, Winter. p. 3?4.
1989eAfghan
Peace Would Benefit the Region. Chicago
Tribune.Op-ed
page. December 2.
1990.Briefing
on Afghanistan.
AACAR
Bulletin (of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research).
Vol 3, no. 1 (spring) pp 2 - 5.
1991 Preface.
In: Turko-Persia A Historical Perspective.
1991a
Introduction:
The Turko-Persian Cultural Tradition.In:Turko-Persia in Historical
Perspective, edited by Robert L. Canfield.Santa Fe and New
York:School
of American Research and Cambridge University Press.
1991b
Theological
"Extremism" and Social Movements in Central Asia.In:Turko?Persia
in Historical Perspective,
edited by Robert L. Canfield.Santa Fe
and London:School
of American
Research
and CambridgeUniversity
Press.
1993Carnival
and Worship at the Shrine of Ali. In: Everyday Life in the
Muslim Middle
East,
edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early. IndianaUniversity
Press.
1995Obituary:David
G. Scotchmer.Anthropology Newsletter Vol. 36 (No. 9, December),
p. 39.
1999.On
Cultural Relativism, Ethics, and the Concept of Culture.Notes on Anthropology
and Intercultural Community Work 28: 3-8.
2001.Who
are the Afghans?At www.historynewsnetwork.org, 9/20/01.[1000
words][Reprinted in St Louis
Post-Dispatch 9/30/01
as "Nation Is Home to Afghans, Mujahedeen, Taliban, Afghan-Arabs, to Name
a Few".To be republished (2004) in Roberto Gonzalez (ed), Anthropologists
in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power.Austin:University
of Texas.]
2002b.
Hazara.In:
Ember, Carol R., Melvin Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of
World Cultures Supplement. New
York:
Macmillan Reference USA.
2002c.Merging
Varying Ethnic Types and Religious Sects to Create a New Afghan StateWashingtonUniversity
Magazine.March issue.
2003.Symbol
and Sentiment in Motivated Action.In:Tom Headland, MaryRuth Wise and
Ruth Brend (eds), Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L.
Pike.Dallas: SIL International.
2004.New
Trends among the Hazaras:From "The Amity of Wolves" to "The Practice of
Brotherhood".Iranian Studies 37(2): 241-262.
2004..Soviet
intervention in Afghanistan.Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle
East
and North
Africa,
2nd edition.New York:Macmillan.[Original
by Harry S. Bradsher with a minor addition by me.]
2004..Karzai,Hamed.
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd
edition.New York:Macmillan.
[500 words]
2004d Review article on Searching for Saleem by Farooka Gauhari, Zoya’s
Story by Zoya, Veiled Courage by Cheryl Benard, and The Sewing Circles
of Heart by Christina Lamb, with an Appendix on other works on women in
Afghanistan. Iranian Studies 37(2): 323-333.
2006. Risks of Litigation. International Journal
of Middle East Studies 38: 345-347.
2007a Comment on an article by Nigel Rapport, Current Anthropology
48(2): 269-270.
2007b “Continuing Issues in the New Central Asia.” For the volume,
Le
monde turco-iranien en question: définition, confins, spécificités.
Edited by Muhammad-Reza Djalili, Alessandro Monsutti, Anna Neubauer.
Geneva: L’Institut Universitaire d’études du Développement.
2007c Recollections of a Hazara wedding in the 1930s. In: Jeff
Sahadeo and Russell Zanca (ed), Every Life in Central Asia.
Bloomington: Indiana University. Pp 45-57.
2007d Trouble in Birgilich. In: Jeff Sahadeo and Russell
Zanca (ed), Everyday Life in Central Asia. Bloomington:
Indiana University. Pp 58-65.
2008 Fraternity, power, and time in Central Asia.
In, The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistn, edited by Robert
Crews and Amin Tarzi. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
[Draft] Introduction. In: Robert L. Canfield and Gabriele
Rasuly-Paleczek, eds., New Games in Central Asia: Great and Small.
[Draft] Efficacy and Hierarchy: Examples from Afghanistan.
For the volume, New Games in Central Asia: Great and Small, ed by
R L. Canfield and Gabriele Paleczek. [86 pp ms]
Unpublished
ms.Images
Received:The Holy Struggle in a Muslim Note Book.
Reviews
1971.Review
of Afghanistan: Some New Approaches, edited by G. Grassmuck, L.
Adamec, and F. Irwin.Journal of Asian Studies.
1973.Review
of The Politics of Afghanistan
by R. Newell.International Journal of Comparative Sociology 14(1?2):
142-144.
1973.Review
of Afghanistan
by Louis Dupree.Ethnohistory 20(1): 424?429.
1978.Review
of Millennium and Charisma among Pathans by A.S. Ahmed.Newsletter
of the Afghanistan
Council6:
25-28.
1980.Review
of Muslim-Christian Conflicts: Economic, Political and Social Origins,
edited by S. Joseph and B. Pillsbury.APLA Newsletter 4(1): 8-10.
1981.Review
of TheKirghiz
and Wakhi of Afghanistan
by M. NazifShahrani.Bulletin of the Middle
East
Studies Association
15(1): 35-36.
1983.Review
of Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan
by G. Whitney Azoy.Journal of Asian StudiesXLIII(1): 174-176.
1983.Review
of The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan
by Thomas Barfield.Bulletin of the Middle EastStudies
Association 17(2): 27-28.
1984.Review
of Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern
Pakistan
by Charles Lindholm.American Ethnologist 11(3) (August): 616-617.
1986.Review
of The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan, edited
by Richard Tapper.Anthropology Quarterly (Spring)
1990.Review
of:Roads and Rivals:The Political Uses of Access in the Borderlands
of Asia
by Mahnaz Z. Ispahani.AACAR (Association for the Advancement of Central
Asian Research) Bulletin, Vol 3(1) (spring).[Reprinted in Afghanistan Forum
19(5) (September).
1992.Review
of:Soviet Central
Asia:The
Failed Transformation,
edited by WillimaFierman.Middle East Journal.
1993.Review
of:The Cultural Basis of Afghan Nationalism, edited by Evan W. Anderson
and Nancy Hatch Dupree.Turkish Studies Association Bulletin.
1996.Review
of:The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran,
and Pakistan,
edited by Myron Weiner and Ali Banuazizi.Iranian Studies 28(3-4),
pp 241-245.
1996.Review
of Out of Afghanistan:The
Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal,
Diego Cordovez and Selig S. harrison.The Middle
East
Journal,
50(2), pp 272-273.
1997.Review
of:The Search for Peace in Afghanistan:From
Buffer State to Failed State,
by Barnett R. Rubin.International Journal of Middle
East
Studies
29(2): 317-8.
1999.Review
of:Regional Security and the Future of Central Asia:The Competition
of Iran, Turkey, and Russia, by HoomanPeimani.Slavic Review
58(3), pp 683-4.
1999.Review
of:The Hazaras of Afghanistan:An Historical, Cultural, Economic and
Political Study, by S. A. Mousavi.International Journal of Middle
East Studies 31: 321-2.
1999.Review
of:Marginality and Modernity:Ethnicity and Change in Post-Colonial Balochistan,
edited by Paul Titus.American Anthropologist vol 101.
2000.Review
of:Kabul Under Siege:Fayz
Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising, edited and annotated by Robert
D. McChesney.International Journal of Middle East
Studies 32(Nov): 556-7.
2004. Review
of:Before Taliban:Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad, by David B. Edwards.
Iranian
Studies.
Reports
of Consulations
1988.Suggestions
for the development of a Center for the Study of Government among the Afghanistan
peoples.A report to USIS after a visit to Pakistan
as an Academic Specialist.
1990.Democratic
Pluralism Strategy for Afghanistan.A
report prepared by Robert L. Canfield, David J. Katz, and Thomas Nicastro
for the Agency for International Development - Representative to Afghanistan.Islamabad.
1992.
Report
of the Consultation on Afghanistan.Rapporteur's
summary of the Consultation for the CarterCenter
and the International Negotiating Network.Atlanta.[To
which is attached an informal communication on behalf of the "Afghanistan
Consultation" group.January 18,
1992]
Televised
Lecture in streaming video
2003."Nationalism
and Ethnic Identity:The Hazaras", a lecture given at DukeUniversity
on November 19, for the course "Afghanistan
in the Modern World".On the website of the Perkins Library, DukeUniversity.